Word: depictions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Above the Water. To depict the dramatic sinking of the Dorchester Nivola designed a huge 22-ft.-by-24-ft. hull of white, reinforced concrete, balanced it over a broad fountain basin which flows inward with a whirlpool motion to a small central oval. For the four 6-ft.-tall sandcast plaques, set just above the water to memorialize the four chaplains, Nivola also went back to an early inspiration, the semi-abstract holiday bread loaves made by Sardinian women. For his motifs Nivola picked four common aspirations: the clasped hands of prayer, conflict of good and evil, family unity...
Properly cautious, Miller says: "The rather stringent conditions for a favorable answer seem to be met and strongly suggest the possibility that the two pictographs actually depict . . . the supernova...
...lived in 15th-century Burgundy, belonged to the austere lay Brotherhood of Our Lady, and painted some of the world's greatest pictures. He was perhaps better understood in an earlier age than at present. In 1605 a Spanish monk wrote that "Bosch alone has the courage to depict the inner and the essential . . . His paintings are not farces but like books of great wisdom." Today Bosch is called the "father of surrealism" and admired chiefly as a convincing fantasist...
...questions imply the recognition of considerable merits in her story. Certainly, profound dilemmas are not always enacted on a plane of heroic tragedy. To depict sordidness itself as a component of great actions is also a task, and Miss Karmel seems aware of it. Furthermore, her ability to marshall the facts themselves so vividly that her probing of them appears glaringly inadequate, indicates the measure of her technical accomplishment. It is the most basic responsibility to that technique, however, which I find lacking...
...problem which faced the writers of that industrial period was how to depict problems involved in the rapid transition to industry and yet retain literary standards. As might be expected, in doing the former, the latter suffered. Writers were forced to read their stories to assemblies of workers and writers, for "constructive criticism"; they had to sign time pledges for their books, just as a factory worker did. In writing about this period, the authors were almost always forced to use this Socialist Realism. Socialist Realism, in short, must depict conditions in factories, or farms, but in such...